sarah2438's reviews
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This is a very soft DNF. I will be back for it. But the mood kinda passed and I was only 20 pages in. I don't want to force myself through it.

Maybe I was more critical on my reread of the first book. But this one was better. They're just so damn cozy, I can't resist. The only thing is that the reading of the rules gets pretty redundant, especially when they go over them multiple times in the same story. Fully recommend though. "Mother and Son" had me ready to lose it.

This just wasn't good. No character development, no emotional connection. Random characters thrown at you. Part 1 was all from Adelaide's perspective and then the rest of the book has more of an omniscient/alternating POV. The time jumps and jumps between scenes (including immediately before they reach their climax, with no resolution given) were very annoying. And I think the plot itself was deeply flawed-- this "I need to hide from my past" vibe while also telling anyone and everyone where she's from, as well as what's actually in the trunk, was just... dumb. The only thing I can appreciate is that the writing was generally good. But if you can't back that up with good plot or characters, there's not much left for me. 

This is like if CoHo wrote fantasy lol
It's compelling and fun but as Melissa says, this is all vibes no thought. There isn't even much plot until the last 20% or so. It's just a vague mashup of Harry Potter x Divergent + smut. And not that I'm complaining, but it's not as spicy as everyone says. I'm actually pretty baffled that everyone is so obsessed with it. Not sure if I'll read the next one.

I'm torn on how to rate this because I really, really liked it for a while there. But the 30% or so just didn't make any sense to me. It reminded me of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things." The writing really pulled me in and there were times that I was genuinely unsettled and had to pause for the night, and I really liked the way the author wrote about grief. But I just can't rate it any higher when I don't understand the end.

I'm opting not to rate this one because I recognized partway through that I'm not really the intended audience. Reading this when I was struggling really bad with my depression would have been a game changer. Or way into the future if I have kids and a husband (no one hold your breath on that). As it is now, my house isn't a big mess and the tasks I struggle with are the ones that take it from tidy to *clean* clean. Still, I can recognize that this book had a lot of helpful tips, reminders, and has the potential to be really beneficial for a lot of people.

Oh my god this was stunning. Major shoutout to my local library's reading challenge because I never would've gotten around to this one if it weren't for the nature writing prompt. Everything about this was just impeccably done. Reading this in late October was weirdly perfect because this is a book that needs to be read in the cold, but it's also so dark and depressing that I would advise against reading it in January or any of those other months that are hard enough to survive as it is. I'm scarfing down my dinner right now as I write this because I was so enraptured by the story that I forgot to eat. I was initially concerned that this book would take too political a stance (not that science is inherently political, but you know what I mean) but politics aren't even mentioned once. We are already in the midst of the mass extinction in this book-- it's not something to be debated anymore, but fact. The way it's written is so clever too. There is no technology or other references that could date it. This could easily take place 10 years ago, today, or 100 years in the future. And that in itself is a caution. Ugh even with how dark this was I just loved it.

It's a classic for a reason. I used my notes app to keep track of the characters though because especially at the start it was pretty difficult to keep track.

These books are pretty mid so far but it's a nice little palette cleanser between heavier stuff. The humor is fun but the science/tech are a bit much for me. I'll probably read through the ones I have and then move on. I don't see myself actually committing to the whole 10+ book series.